Sunday, November 18, 2007

Patholi, a must for nagar panchami festival is a steamed sweet dish known to every amchi has the flavour borrowed from fresh turmeric leaves that wraps this to-die-for Konkani dessert. Mostly prepared on festivals but due to popular demand it is made ever so often at my Mom's place. Although, this dessert has all its glamour from turmeric leaves, it can also be prepared in banana leaves if like me that's the alternative that your life has stooped down to use frozen banana leaves..sniff, sniff.
My mom cooks it in both ways because after a certain point the turmeric plant can't keep reproducing with the speed due to severe pigging-out :p by the Kamath family. Ingredients:
Rice - 1 cup
coconut - 1 cup
salt

Filling/ churna:
coconut 1 cup
jaggery 3/4 cup
elaichi powder 1/2 tsp

Method:
Grind soaked rice, coconut and salt with very little water to thick smooth paste.

Mix together the ingredients for churna.

Wash and dry the turmeric leaves.
Smear some rice paste in the centre of the leaves leaving the edges untouched.Place the churna in the centre of the paste and fold the leaves lengthwise. Steam it for 15 mins and serve with ghee.

Method:
Cube the mangoes/pineapple. Cook with salt, green chille, jaggery and water for about 5 mins.

In the meantime, in a skillet, dry roast sesame seeds ( it roasts real quick), coriander seeds, urad dal and red chilies. Grind roasted ingredients together with coconut, tamarind paste and salt with very little water to a coarse paste. Add the masala paste to the cooked mangoes/pineapple and bring this curry to desired consistence ( this should have enough gravy to coat the pineapple well) and simmer it for about 5 mins.

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My blog is an attempt to save old family recies from Mamama (maternal grandmom), make replica's of moms and mom-in-laws specialities and add a few additions of my own.

Re-creating food means being hopeful of the outcome and the recipes taken down from my family and friends have always been accurate to the T. With that confidence a novice like me can absolutely rule the kitchen.

These are not my original recipes, they are my trials/effort to master what I once promised myself to make it for my family and friends. For the most part, I will tweak a thing or two which has been a wise decision almost always.

I can promise you two things, though:

First of all, I share recipes that I personally made and approve of doing justice to the taste buds.

Secondly, I will always post a picture with each recipe....most of the time anyway!